CULTURE

As the ideals of the Enlightenment continue to be eclipsed by the encroachment of a New Dark Age, we may all be consoled that symphony orchestras around the world continue to perform superbly. 

These bastions of culture tour the world and perform with extraordinary skill and élan without the absorbed members betraying the slightest suspicion that the stages on which they perform, usually sanctified by long musical tradition, have become, like the rest of what is generally called civilization, as shaky as a bamboo pier in a Tsunami.

Nor do they seem to note the subliminally bothersome resonance of their glorious music making with Nero’s legendary fiddling.

We may attribute this – dare we call it? – deafness to the generally recognized fact that only once in approximately a century does the infinitely possible gene pool produce a human being who is not only musical but who actually finds himself or herself impelled to read about current events. 

It seems that words and music exhibit only an extremely rare confluence in the human mind.

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